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Books — Printed & Written Material - Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.
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| Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd. | |
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| Number of lots recorded: | 63 |
| Lots with images: | 63 |
| Prices available: | 63 |
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Books
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A 19th century Italian book of Naples miniature, watercolours, the leather embossed book with twenty five finely painted plates depicting various scenes of the Province of Naples inscribed Susan Griffith Buckingham 1848 Elizabeth Griffith Naples 1826. | *** |  |
| *** | Twelve volumes of Oriental ceramics - the World's Greatest Collections, [Various authors], Oriental ceramics - the World's Greatest Collections, vols 1-12, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1976-1977, the set numbered 10, in original cloth and individual clam shell cases. | *** |  |
| *** | Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel), the Lord of the rings trilogy (1954-1955), a first edition set, two of the volumes in their first impressions, J.J.R. Tolkien, the Lord of the rings trilogy, comprising the Fellowship of the ring (first edition [1954], ninth… | *** |  |
| *** | Cook, James, a voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... (1784), ['Cook's third Voyage'], with an atlas of the plates, James cook and James King, a voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Undertaken by the Command of his Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern… | *** |  |
| *** | A quantity of catalogues on the Baur collection of Chinese works of Art, including ceramics, jades, and snuff bottles | *** |  |
| *** | Hemingway, Ernest, a Farewell to arms (1929), first edition, first printing, Ernest Hemingway, a Farewell to arms (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1929), first edition, first printing (without the disclaimer on p. X and with 'Catherine' spelled as… | *** |  |
| *** | Steinbeck (John), to a God unknown, first edition, first issue, John Steinbeck, to a God unknown (Robert O. Ballou, New York, 1933), first edition, first issue, octavo, in the publisher's gilt lettered green cloth with dust-jacket, housed in a custom-made… | *** |  |
| *** | Hawkesworth, John, an Account of the voyages ... In the Southern Hemisphere ... (1773), ['Cook's first Voyage'], John Hawkesworth, an Account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere… | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of William Blake's watercolour designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray in three volumes, printed for J. Murray, Fleet Street, 1972. First edition. Quarter leather bound, marbled boards, limited to 518 copies, each volume housed in individual… | *** |  |
| *** | Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Jm Dent & Co, 1893, volume I & II, 1st edition, limited edition of 1500 unnumbered copies (not including the 300 on Dutch handmade paper), bound in original cream cloth, spines… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Kathleen's Voyage' by Jack Earl, Sydney, Weldon Publishing, 1991, volume I, the log book of Kathleen Gillett, written and illustrated by Jack Earl during his 1947-48 voyage around the world, limited edition 51/200, half-calf, gilt title on front cover… | *** |  |
| *** | Steinbeck (John), the moon is down, first edition, first issue, inscribed by the author, John Steinbeck, the moon is down (the Viking press, New York, 1942), first edition, first issue (with the unintended period between 'Talk' and 'This' on p. 112),… | *** |  |
| *** | The Leonard Gow collection of Chinese porcelain, R.L. Hobson, catalogue of the Leonard Gow collection of Chinese porcelain, London, printed for the author, 1931, signed by Leonard Gow and numbered 154 of 300 copies, in original gilt-lettered full… | *** |  |
| *** | Vivienne Westwood, Opus, Published 2008, from an edition of 900 | *** |  |
| *** | A collectors issue of first edition of 'Kingfishers and Related Birds' & 'Australian Parrots' by Joseph M. Forshaw, William T. Cooper Melbourne Lansdowne, Vol. I: Ceryle to Cittura (includes the fish-Eating and Specialist Kingfishers), 1983 signed by… | *** |  |
| *** | Japanese Art, the great European Collections, twelve volumes, Published by Kodansha, Japan, 1993, of twelve editions, in original silk cases and outer cardboard cases | *** |  |
| *** | Gould, John. 'The Birds of Australia ' 1971-75 complete set of large leather bound 1970's edition | *** |  |
| *** | The birds of Australia in eight volumes, John Gould, Lansdowne press, Melbourne, 1972-5, elephant folio, bound in morocco style faux leather, gilt titling and borders, facsimile edition with 681 coloured plates | *** |  |
| *** | Hemingway (Ernest), the Torrents of spring and to have and have not, both first edition, first printing, two works by Ernest Hemingway the Torrents of spring (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926), first edition, first printing (with the publisher's… | *** |  |
| *** | Les Satyres de Guillaume Hogarth Published by Robert Sayer, 1768, first edition featuring 81 engraved plates after Hogarth's famous series including the Rake's progress, the Times of the day and Marriage a-la-Mode, height 47 cm, width 30 cm. Other Notes:… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Le Morte D'Arthur' by Sir Thomas Malory, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, J.M. Dent & Co, second edition 1909, bookplate of James Williams Macarthur Onslow. | *** |  |
| *** | Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul. 'Elves and Fairies' first edition | *** |  |
| *** | The Dictionary of English furniture, Ralph Edwards, Vols I-III complete, second edition, London, country life, 1954, in original cloth and dust-wrappers | *** |  |
| *** | Complete collection of ceramic Art Unearthed in China, 16 volumes, complete sixteen volume set by Zhang Bai, Science press, Beijing, 2007 | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Ola Cohn ceramic bookends, each modelled as an academically robed figure reading a book, green bronzed glaze, incised Ola Cohn. Height 27 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Steinbeck (John), Travels with Charley, first edition, signed by the author, John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, in search of America (the Viking press, New York, 1962), first edition, octavo, in the publisher's red and black-lettered cream cloth with… | *** |  |
| *** | New Zealand Book of Ferns compiled by Cranwell, 1876, quarto, decorative carved wooden mounted front and back boards with green leather spine, containing over forty New Zealand fern specimens labelled with their botanical names, looses to some specimens | *** |  |
| *** | Masterpieces of Western and near Eastern ceramics, John Basil Hennessy, Kodansha, Japan: 1979. Bound in cloth covers, each housed in individual clam shell box, in eight volumes. Text in English and Japanese, volume one: ancient and near East Pottery,… | *** |  |
| *** | Langley, Batty, new Principles of gardening (1728), Batty Langley, new Princples of gardening: or, the Laying out and Planting [of] Parterres, Groves, Wildernesses, Labyrinths, Avenues, Parks [etc.] (a. Bettesworth and J. Batley, London [etc.], 1728),… | *** |  |
| *** | Aedes Walpolianae, Horace Walpole, 1747, Aedes Walpolianae: or, a Description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk [...], 4to, first edition, London, privately printed, 1747. Full leather, the contemporary mottled calf boards rebacked… | *** |  |
| *** | Four Australian Expedition reference books; the log of the hallmarked sterling Bounty 1787-1789, by Lieutenant William Bligh. Published by Genesis publications limited, 1975. Half lather bound with buckram boards and housed in slip case. Edition 372 of… | *** |  |
| *** | Captain Cook's Voyages Around the world in two volumes Newcastle, M.brown, at the bible, in the flesh market, 1790, leather bound with ribbed spine, various illustrations throughout, spine and binding very worn, some foxing | *** |  |
| *** | The Trinity Apocalypse, Published by Faksimile Verlag, Lucerne 2004, 394/980, the original in Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. | *** |  |
| *** | Photographic Pleasures. Popularly portrayed by pen and pencil, Cuthbert Bede, new and cheaper edition, with printed board covers, London: Day & Son, 1855 | *** |  |
| *** | Art of the Sepik in three volumes, text in German | *** |  |
| *** | Eugene Von Guerard: A German Romantic in the Antipodes, Candice Bruce, Alister Taylor Publishers, 1982 | *** |  |
| *** | The Chronicles of Early Melbourne 1835-1851 Historical, Anecdotal and Personal, Garryowen, Fergusson & Mitchell, Melbourne: 1888, quarto, red morrocco binding with gilt tooling, centennial edition with portraits and illustrations, in two volumes | *** |  |
| *** | The Journals of Captain James Cook in four volumes, along with a copy of his charts and views; the Journal of Captain James Cook, published for the Hakluyt Society, 1968-1974. Along with charts & views drawn by Cook and his officers and reproduced from… | *** |  |
| *** | The Discovery of Australia by George Collingridge; a Critical Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the 'Endeavour', in the year 1770. With… | *** |  |
| *** | The Ceramics and Sculptures of Chagall Malraux, Andre, Editions Andre Sauret, Monaco, 1972, quarto, linen binding in illustrated dust jacket, original lithograph bound in book | *** |  |
| *** | Helmut Newton, 'Sumo', Taschen, with perspex stand | *** |  |
| *** | Two volumes of the Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900 Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter, hard cover in illustrated dust jacket, 1985 & 1986 | *** |  |
| *** | Victoria and It's Metropolis, Past and Present Sutherland, Alexander, McCarron, Bird & Co., Melbourne, 1888, in two volumes, black embossed leather binding with gilt titling, binding worn | *** |  |
| *** | Group of items, including Epherma, postcards, photographs, two books and a hand painted stone depicting an Aboriginal Adolescent signed to reverse | *** |  |
| *** | Collection of assorted Oriental reference books including snuff bottles | *** |  |
| *** | Collection of architectural, modern design and furniture books (6) | *** |  |
| *** | Large collection of Australian food related ephemera including 35 wrappers for peters ice cream, johnny's kernol peanuts and devilled almonds; stickers; recipe books and related (a lot) | *** |  |
| *** | Tom Roberts 1856-1931 Catalogue Raisonne, Oxford University press, Melbourne, 1985, in two volumes, boards in pictorial dust jacket, in two volumes | *** |  |
| *** | Two books relating to Indigneous Australians Australia's Aborigines: Their life and Culture, McCarthy, Frederick. D, Colorgravure Publications, 1957, quarto, linen binding with gilt-titled leather label on front cover, limited edition Songlines and… | *** |  |
| *** | Three books concerning Norman Lindsay Art in Australia, December 1930, Norman Lindsay number, pictorial paper binding, foxing throughout, spine damaged Burston, Harold (edt), new Soth Wales Bookstall Co. Ltd, Sydney,1912, Norman Lindsay's book: No. 1,… | *** |  |
| *** | Five books relating to postcards | *** |  |
| *** | Part shelf of books relating to Australian furniture and timber including early Colonial furniture | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of seven coffee table books and auction catalogues including the ballets russes, the art Museum, the golden age of couture and other titles | *** |  |
| *** | Collection of books;, including Hornby; toy soldiers series (8) | *** |  |
| *** | Three shelves of assorted vintage books including leather bound | *** |  |
| *** | An Address book by Lanvin, styled in black leather, 15.5 x 22 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Phil May in Australia, the Bulletin Newspaper Company limited, Sydney 1904 hardcover | *** |  |
| *** | Coles Funny picture book 1, 2 and 3, plus two others | *** |  |
| *** | Shelf of assorted Arthur Upfield and Ion Idriess books | *** |  |
| *** | Two boxes, including Crime, childrens books etc. | *** |  |
| *** | C.H.M. Clark's a History of Australia in six volumes | *** |  |
| *** | Two boxes of assorted books including Novels, Biographies etc. | *** |  |
| *** | One shelf of assorted books including General reference, Novels etc. | *** |  |